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Gaius Julius Caesar (100/102 BCE - 44 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3088355
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v.,plates. . ill..,maps,port.. . 8vo.. With manuscript notes in vols. I and II by Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928), including some copied from Lord Macaulay. Dates of reading include 'May 28 1917 Welcombe The most interesting military story I ever read, as told by the hero of it. If Pharsalia had gone the other way the Kaiser and the Czar would now be called "Pompey" '. In vol. II (p. 830 & 831) an anonymous piece has the manuscript note: 'This is far and away the worst Latin I have ever read of the great Ciceronian age of prose. The text is mortally corrupt; but besides that, the style is detestable. And yet I read it with interest' (GOT); echoes Macaulay: 'It is dreadfully corrupt'.. Provenance: Pastedown obscures armorial bookplate of former owner, lettered S.T. Galton (possibly Samuel Tertius Galton, 1783-1844).. Binding: Nineteenth-century full leather binding, rebacked; red and greed spine labels, gilt lettered.
Makers and roles
Gaius Julius Caesar (100/102 BCE - 44 BCE) Aulus Hirtius (c.90-43BC) Jeremias Jacob Oberlin (1735-1806)